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Heidbreder, Robert

Black and Bittern Was Night

32 pp. | Kids Can | August, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-55453-302-2 $16.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by John Martz. "Black and bittern was night, / that Halloween night, / when skul-a-mug-mugs / spled out skellety fright." In nonsense verse that's part Dr. Seuss, part Lewis Carroll, Heidbreder describes how a mob of invading skeletons are vanquished by the town's child trick-or-treaters. Cartoony illustrations capture the night's events capably, but it's difficult to find the sense in the text's nonsense.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano

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